Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-11
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STATE NEWS.


dered.
There are AT oonviots in the United
States military prison at Fogt Leaven-
worth.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte, &
Northwestern railroad is completed to
HOiton.
The ". @. T. Q. of Arkansas City has
opened lonch and reading room for the
benefit Of young men.
Englewood Chief: To the Neutral
Strip. via EnglewoOd, is the route OF
hundreds OF home seekers.
Caleb E. Peacock, aged 16 years, has
disappeared from his home near Wa
Keeney. His parents are trying to find
him.
Clay Center Times: There have been
227 converts In the barracks Of the Sal
walton Army, and only I've Of that num-
Der have back slidden.
There are nine women in the state
penitentiary at EeaVenwOrth. Three
Of them are under life sentence ard three
under sentence to be hanged.
h. A. Hammond. formerly produce
merchant, viebjmizsd the Bank o. Fort
Scott, by forging a note tor $4,000.
| The officers are on his tracks.
A vein of coal hes been struok near
Baldwin City, in Douglas county, at
depth OF seventy five feet. The vein is
thick enough to work pr0htably.
A government report makes record Of
/ but two hundred buffalo left of the
/ countless herds that Ioamed over west
ern Kansas within the last fifteen years.
The Newton KGnsQu states that five
leading society young ladies Of that city
! rugged themselves out in mems clothing
one evening recently and "tOok in the
town"
The ". @. T. .. OF Arkansas City is
conducting a night school ia that place.
| The school has a mending department
which does all kinds Of mendidg at rea-
sonRble rates.
The inmates OF the Rice county jail
have taken a hand in county politics.
/ They recently addressed a letter to the
| Lyons Republican bearing on matters Of
political significance.
/ Senator Plumb is quoted as saying
that within five years Kansas will pro-
duce her own sugar and that within ten
years the United States will manufacture
all the sugar it uses.-s
a young man attempted to obtain
money on q forged note at Clay Center
last week. The forgery was promptly
detected. The young man was caPtur-
ed and placed in Jail.
George Tread well, a eoIored man, was
/ found murdered near Chase, Mcpherson
county, few days ago. His murderer,
q white man, escaped. No motive for the
murder can be assigned.
During the year ending June Ist,
| 1887, there were built in Wichita over
two miles of residences, almost one mile
IF business houses, and a quarter Of
mile Of factory buildings.
A 16-year-old boy living near Nc
/ PheTsOn was experimenting with loaded
hell, few days ago. AS might lave
/ been expected, It exploded, and he will
lose his hand for his curiosity.
The docket for the fall term Of the
district court in SedgWiek county shows
= total of sevsnty-twO criminal cases.
| Thirty-three of these are for selling
whisky. The civil cases number 476.
The machine shops OF the Fort Scott,
/ Wichita, and Western railroad at Fort
j Scott are nearing completion. The Mon
itor states that the repair work for 700
miles Of road will be done in these shops.
John Brown, a prisoner in the Usage
] s4sH Of sDf. Eraus
| with q case knife and delivered himself
and his ''pards,'' Boney Harris and
| George Morton. They have not been
recaptured.
Asohison Globe: There are now fifty
orphan children In the Home in this
city, which number is rapidly increasing,
and Colonel PieTson expects to have one
hundred children in the Home by the
1stot January.
OF the $50 prisoners in the state Peni-
tentiary at Lesvenworth, forty ars
serving their second term in that iDsti-
tuition, three their third term, and two
their fourth. One colored man has been
in the penitentiary i've times.
The American Coursing associations
season at Great Bend was successful A
great number OF dcgs from all over the
country were entered, and the racing was
exceptionally fine. An EmpOria man
was elected president for the coming
year.
The WaKesney Republican states
! that quite a number Of applications have
already been nRde at the state forestry
station, near WaKeeney, for forest trees.
A limited number Of these trees will be
furnished to those who wiah to plant
them.
Henry Brown, a colored man living at
/ LsIned, a few days ego struck Albert
Bean, another colored man, with a
scantling, on account of an unpaid board
/ bill OF So, ard 50 injured him that he lie
not expected To live. Brown was cap
tured and Is now IN jail.
Atchison Globe. An Abchison man.
whose second wife gave him much trou-
bic about a year ago, and from whom he
obtained a divorce, has married again,
aud his first wife is living with the man
Who originally caused the trouble be-
tween he and his second wife
ClareDce Swift. an s-year-oId boy. wee
thrown from a pony and killed in Wicn-
ita, q few days ago His foot caught in
the stirFup, the pony FunDing some dis
/ lance before it could be stopped The
boy and his mother we're wishing ia
/ Wichita from Indiana, and expected TO
return tbs next day.